Ranma ½ Soul Bonded: Book Ends

The Ero-Sennin

The Eyes of Heaven
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#26
AzaggThoth said:
The more I consider your arguments the more I think it is dumb for entirely different reasons. Do you know how many stories claim to be built around the premise of one or several huge changes then do all of nothing with them by following along the plot laid out by the manga? To damn many. If you are going to be so lazy as to introduce a huge 'change' then have nothing change don't bother. If you have a big change like this, you change everything. That was why Tick Tock worked and this would not. You seem afraid to actually change things.
Because deviating from the stations of canon means writing characters in situations they've never been in before, which causes them to change in different ways. It's also why fanon flanderization is so common, it's why Akane must only and always be a man-hating rageaholic. It's why Ranma must be perfect and still owed the world.

It's easy.

It's shit.

But it's easy.
 
#27
@AzaggThoth, Something things can't be butterflied away, like Ryoga and Ukyo, while others, like Kodachi and the Golden Pair, probably can, and others can simply be ignored because they add nothing.

@Ero, I think the best thing I can say to your post is that it isn't easy, at least for me. Well not exactly easy, but rather why bother?

For this story I'm planning on having Ranma stay at the Tendo's for 3 months, it fits with the 'Endless Summer' thing, during which important arcs will happen. Ranma will tell Akane about this, the wording might take some work but, what with how easy it is to trigger her temper early on, but not Soun or Genma. After all, why should Ranma and Akane honor the pledge if Soun and Genma aren't?
 
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